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• Viral load will be no defence against prosecution for HIV exposure or transmission in Norway

  HIV and criminal law
  Gus Cairns | 20 October 2012

  HIV campaigners reacted with dismay today to the issuing of a report by a Norwegian Commission on HIV and the Law which, while making one significant concession in the shape of allowing condom ...

• Motivational interviewing, widely used counselling technique, may not work well for sexual behaviour change

  Behaviour change interventions
  Gus Cairns | 16 September 2011

  A meta-analysis of sexual risk behaviour reduction using the counselling technique known as motivational interviewing has found little evidence of efficacy, the Tenth AIDS Impact conference heard this week. Researcher Rigmor Berg, of the Norwegian ...

• Advice on HIV medication for travellers stranded by air travel ban

  Keith Alcorn | 20 April 2010

  Travel disruption caused by the cloud of volcanic ash over northern Europe may continue for some days, and is presenting problems for people with HIV who are stranded and running ...

• Study rates Luxembourg as having the best HIV prevention and care in Europe

  HIV treatment
  Roger Pebody | 19 October 2009

  A study assessing 29 European countries’ HIV policies and services has highlighted best practice and areas for improvement, with widespread differences between European countries. Overall, the countries rated as having ...

• Judges, lawyers, politicians and advocates unite around the world to condemn criminalisation

  Social and legal issues
  Edwin J. Bernard | 16 June 2009

  Over the past week, the global movement against criminalisation of HIV transmission received its biggest boost since the International AIDS Conference in Mexico last July. In rallies and meetings in ...

• HIV diagnoses in European MSM have almost doubled since 2000, UK tops the list

  Transmission and prevention
  Roger Pebody | 28 November 2008

  Data from 23 European countries show that the annual number of HIV diagnoses in men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased by 86% between 2000 and 2006, report ...

• Criminal HIV transmission and exposure laws spreading around the world ‘like a virus’

  Social and legal issues
  Edwin J. Bernard | 07 August 2008

  Concern over the growing international trend towards the criminalisation of HIV transmission or exposure was documented in a Wednesday morning session at the XVII International AIDS Conference that highlighted “criminalisation ...

• New Swedish chlamydia strain ‘possible emerging threat to public health’

  Sexually transmitted infections
  Edwin J. Bernard | 11 October 2007

  A European-wide investigation into a possible outbreak of a new, often undetected variant of Chlamydia trachomatis – first seen in Sweden last year – has found that so far the ...